Thomas Lane
Managing Director
Runs TCI Group and sets the direction for all five brands. On larger or unusual projects, Thomas is usually part of the conversation.
TCI Construction · How we work
Concrete tooling that fits your yard, not the other way round.
One workshop, one engineering bench, one paperwork trail. We design the mould around your mix, your strike sequence and the way your team actually handles it on a Wednesday afternoon in December.
Our people
The people behind every TCI mould.
The same small team works across all five TCI brands, so the person who quotes your job is never far from the person who builds it.
George Preston
Design & Project Manager
Turns your drawing, sketch or sample into a mould design, then keeps the project moving from first idea to sign-off.
Kelly Ballinger
Head of Partnerships
Looks after the businesses we work with over the long term, from the first enquiry through to repeat orders.
Jim Anderton
Production Manager
Runs the workshop floor, plans each build and makes sure every mould is checked before it leaves us.
Theodore
Employee Welfare
Our cocker spaniel. Keeps spirits up in the office and gives every delivery a thorough sniff.
Where we sit
Four brands, one engineering team behind them.
Techcraft Industries Mouldings Ltd trades under four brands so that specialist customers land on specialist content. The engineering, the workshop and the quality system are shared. A chandler and a precast yard get very different sites — because they're chasing very different outcomes — but they get the same team.
TCI Construction is the division for anyone casting concrete. Precast yards, GRC producers, cast-stone workshops, cladding manufacturers, heritage restoration contractors, landscape and public-realm suppliers. Same silicone, same polyurethane, same bench — different application, different questions.
How a job flows
From first photograph to a formliner on your bed.
Enquiry
A photograph of the panel or elevation, a line about the mix, a rough count of pours. We come back the same working day with a route recommendation and an honest rough number.
Design and DFM
The mould is designed around the panel and the bed. Draft, split lines, splice positions, vents, how it lifts off, how it stacks. Nothing left to be worked out at the pattern stage.
Pattern and mould
Master pattern machined, sculpted or scanned. Silicone or polyurethane poured against it. Mother mould or backing frame built where the geometry needs one.
First-panel approval
You get the mould on your bed and we come with you to first-pour approval where it helps. Any tweak happens before we call the tool released.
Run and reorder
The mould stays with you. When it's approaching end-of-life, order the replacement early — the drawing, the pattern and the material spec are all on file.
What we won't do
Some things we say no to on purpose.
We won't sell you an injection tool for a run of forty panels. We won't quote a lead time we're not sure about. We won't put "±0.1mm" on a piece of hand-cast silicone because it looks reassuring on a purchase order. We won't sell you a polyurethane formliner where a silicone would last longer, and we won't sell you the more expensive silicone where a polyurethane would do the job.
What you get instead is a route recommendation with the reasoning behind it, a written material spec, and a named engineer whose direct line is on the paperwork.
Designed and developed in the UK. UK moulding capability, with some higher-volume production placed with trusted partners where that's the right commercial answer.
Get in touch
Send us a photograph of the panel or the elevation.
One photograph tells us what surface you're chasing, and one line about the mix tells us what silicone or polyurethane will survive it.
Real people, a real workshop
You deal with the people who make it.
No call centre and no middlemen. When you contact TCI Construction, you speak to the team who design, build and check your mould.
- A real Warwickshire workshopUnit 15, Waterloo Park, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester B50 4JG.
- Real people on the phoneCall the team on 01789 224228, Monday to Friday.
- The same team on every jobDesign, production and aftercare come from the people you see here.
- Part of TCI GroupFive specialist brands, one engineering team. Visit TCI Group.
- Thomas LaneManaging Director
- George PrestonDesign & Project Manager
- Kelly BallingerHead of Partnerships
- Jim AndertonProduction Manager
- TheodoreEmployee Welfare